Its been 5 years since I've been reincarnated and I am already 5 years old. In earth it might've meant nothing but here, being five years old require you to start learning magic.
So here I am right now, currently waiting in the empress' training room because unfortunately she will be the one who will teach me. I am here 30 minutes early because my mother hates late people, and by that, I mean people like my father so I don't wanna be hit by an Ultima Magic yet while I'm still 5 years old.
While I'm waiting I'm just gonna do a fast-track on what I've learned from this world. First, this world is called Eidolos and everyone here uses magic. From what I've seen, even civilians can use it freely as long as it doesn't hurt anybody.
Second, Ilea Empire has only explored 14% of this world's space. It means that there are mythical beings guarding some of the lands in the world that isn't welcoming toward intruders. Another cause is that the continent that Ilea Empire governs is surrounded by large seas which are the habitat of horrifying mythical creatures that are immune from rank 18 magic and only rank 19 can hurt them.
Third, the government structure here is different from what I know. The highest power is the empire itself, and the land of the empire is separated by 10 different kingdoms. Though these kingdoms may seem hostile to each other, war isn't allowed by the empire because my mother said that it will only hurt our empire's military power against invaders from other continents and from beast clans, especially when we are surrounded by a large habitat of these creatures. Then the kingdoms are divided by cities and towns.
Fourth, there are different factions in the empire. The mage tower that my mother governs, the Royal knights that my father owns and the Empire's Military faction that is supervised by my grandfather. Speaking of my grandfather, I haven't seen him once in these past five years. Father said that he was too busy in trying to resolve conflicts between kingdoms and guarding the borders of the continent and because of that, he wasn't back in our imperial palace for almost 20 years. Also, the top 3 most powerful people in this continent is my grandfather, my mother and father. Because of that, many are expecting that I will also become more powerful, especially when I have the genes of these 3 people.
Lastly, I've found out from the Forbidden Section of Empire's Library that people with the thing called "System" is considered as heroes that only appear once in an era and that systems are only given by gods. If they knew that I can give systems, would they worship me as their god? Probably not and maybe they'll even kidnap me and force me to use my power for their bad deeds. Luckily, my family is the most powerful in this continent so that would be less likely to happen if ever they find out about my ability.
"My son, is the ceiling so intriguing that you stare at it so hard?"
I immediately stood up straight like a soldier after hearing that voice.
"Uhh haha... well I was just thinking of my future." I said nervously. After seeing him trash my father for about 50 times and in 50 different ways, I'm pretty sure that I will start developing phobia of my mother's presence.
"Good thing you're early because I hate late people. Even if you are my son, I will still discipline you if your behavior isn't right." She said that as she walked in front of me.
I gulped hard. I can already imagine my mother throwing me in the sky and only dropping for about an hour later. That happened to my father once and when he dropped down, my mother didn't even bother to catch him. And that time, my mother sealed my father's cultivation so that he couldn't use magic for a while. Because of that, my father was bedridden for a week while he was buried from the paper works related to the empire's affairs.
"Now, now... don't shake too much from the excitement of learning your first magic."
I'm not shaking because of excitement but because of fear okay?! I just breathed in and out and calmed myself.
"Oh looks like you've already got great control in your emotions. As expected of my son. We should start learning magic because I only have 3 hours left before the Mage Tower Conference."
What?! 3 hours?! I thought it was going to be only 1 hour! Ugh I guess I have no choice.
"Astral, our way of using magic is different compared to normal people. Normal people uses the mana inside them and transforms them to different elements. Mana is a fuel used in order to create magic. While they use their own mana, we use the mana in our surroundings. This helps us in reserving and accumulating the mana in our bodies and because of that, whenever we use magic that are completely fueled by the reserves in our body, the power of magic multiplies. The only consequence is that our body takes the burden because our pathways isn't used to mana coming out of our body. Still, this technique's benefits outweighs the risks and this is also the reason why me, your father and grandfather are the most powerful in this empire. Many tried to copy our technique but many failed because they forgot one thing. Only people who are the descendant of the Ancient Magus can attract mana from the surroundings and use it immediately without the need of storing it in our vessels."
"So how do we use the mana in our surroundings? First is to sit down on your most comfortable position."
Mother motioned me to sit down and I did and Indian sit.
"Now, close your eyes and feel your surroundings. If you focus enough, you will see colorful little lights in your surrounding."
I followed the instruction and closed my eyes. My breathe slowly stabilized until everything around me felt empty. Like I was back again in the dark space before I got reincarnated. After a few seconds, I saw a little white particle pop out in front of me-- no this should be silver. Another one popped out in my left, and another one, and another. It became present everywhere that none of the dark space existed anymore.
"uh mom?" I called out.
"Yes son?"
"I thought its supposed to be colorful... but why is everything in color silver?"
"WHAT?!"
I was disturbed from me focusing and I was brought back from the reality,
"Did you just say silver? And it isn't just a particle but EVERYTHING?!" My mom was so excited she was unconsciously attracting and expelling the mana in surroundings. It felt like there were two tornadoes moving clockwise and counter-clockwise pulling me. The sight of her jumping around isn't also exactly pleasing in the eyes.
"Umm mother, the training room might collapse if the mana continues to go wild."
Mother came back to her senses and immediately stopped.
"Ehem. I'm going to explain to you the different elemental magics. There are 8 types of magic. Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Lightning, Metal, Light and Dark. This corresponds to different color particles. Fire's color particle is red, Water is Blue, Earth is brown, Lightning is Yellow, Metal is Gray, Wind is Green, Light is white and dark is violet. You cannot use a different particle if you are not going to transform it in its corresponding element."
"This is the best part. The silver particles that you saw earlier is glittery right?"
My mother asked and I nodded.
"This are called Ultima Particles. This type of particle can transform to any kind of element and the power of the magic will be multiplied by 2. You know about the Ultima Magic I once used to your father right? The particle used in that is the silvery particle that you saw. I can only gain 10 Ultima particle per year and the magic I used to your father only costs 1 Ultima particle."
My mouth was hanging from her explanation. I didn't count how many particles I saw but it covered the whole dark space so it probably amounts to thousand or even more. If I did an Ultima Magic fueled by those thousands of particles, won't I destroy the whole world? I mean, the Ultima Magic done by mother that was fueled by one particle destroyed half of our Imperial Palace.
"But my son, I assume that you can only use about 1/100th of an Ultima particle right now because you aren't even in rank 0, that amount of ultima particle can only do an explosion with a diameter at the size of a pencil. Though do not worry, you will probably be on rank 0 after a year. For now, just continue on trying to communicate with the particles. You can try asking them for little things like moving 1 inch to the left then gradually increase the difficulty of your order."
and with that, my dreams of exploding things shattered.